CJR Survey Reveals the Obvious: Online Journalism Is a Hoary, Chaotic Mess
Today, the Columbia Journalism Review released a survey on the quality and standards for magazines’ online segments. The results are discouraging if not entirely surprising.
Fifty-nine percent of journalists surveyed said that their publications devoted far fewer resources to online copy editing than to print copy editing, and 11% said that there was no copy desk at all at their online divisions.
What’s worse, more than half (54%) of respondents said that Web editors would correct errors on Web-based stories without a written acknowledgment that the story had been corrected (also known as the “Stealth Republish”/”Quiet Correction”).
The CJR study attributes this inattention to online quality to the Internet’s lightning fast environment, where being first on a story is often much more important than spelling things right — or, more alarmingly, getting the facts straight.
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